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...fact. the game exists for the same reason that horse racing and circus exhibitions exist. The students who are good players are led into base ball by the eclat which good playing brings there. If fun and out-door exercise were the only motives, the scientific game of base ball would be forgotten in a week...
...promises to be one of the most interesting events of the season. Although we have often been taught not "to count our chickens before they are hatched," we predict the success of the home nine with no small degree of confidence. The freshman faculty, we understand, are to lend eclat to the occasion by their presence; and what strength should not this circumstance alone inspire! As an appropriate climax to so famous a victory, the freshmen will make a triumphant entry into the city. The line of march will be the most direct route to No. 72 Center street...
...introduction of bicycling and the establishment of gymnasiums have of late undoubtedly tended to cause a wider diffusion of physical culture. It is also true that objectionable as some of the accompaniments of the boat clubs and base-ball clubs may be, their existence and their triumphs and eclat serve a valuable purpose in keeping alive the interest in physical condition without which the 'well-rounded man' will, under any system of education, be an impossibility. They have done much to create and foster the admiration for health and vigor without which college men, in our time, cannot exert much...
...rapid, irrepressible American, always thirsting for something new. Now that the novelty of college boating has worn off, the factitious excitement disappears, but there is left a solid residuum of enduring interest, which, perhaps, is worth as much in the way of encouraging the sports as the exaggeration and eclat of former days...
...does possess a little talent, she is devoid of the fire of genius, as Mary Anderson. Miss Mather is designed by her managers to burst upon the astonished gaze of the American public with all the effulgence of last year's comet; but we fear that with whatever eclat her advent is heralded, she will fail utterly to dazzle her beholders...